Love and Money, Sex and Death

A Memoir

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McKenzie Wark

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After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and raising two kids, McKenzie Wark has a particularly extreme midlife life-change: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recast her whole relation to the world and reveal it to her as something strange and different. Her past life becomes a stranger to her, a past she can only reclaim by writing to important figures in her life, about the big themes that haunt us all, of love and money, sex and death. Told through a series of letters - to her childhood self, her mother, sister and her past lovers - she grapples with where she has come from and what this change means. She engages with the politics and aesthetics of trans culture and how they impact on her sense of who she is, and who she has been. She confronts difficult memories of her mother's death and her compulsion to write, growing up and her involvement in politics, coming to New York and embracing the counterculture and the realisations and reality of her late transition. Combining the deeply personal and political, Love and Money, Sex and Death is a provocative call to arms that recasts the mould for trans memoirs.

Author Biography:

McKenzie Wark is the author of The Beach Beneath the Street, Capital is Dead, Sensoria and General Intellect among other books. She teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. In 2017, she came out as transgender. Since then she has published her more experimental trans autofiction Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte 2020) and a work that combines both memoir and literary criticism about Kathy Acker, Philosophy for Spiders (Duke UP, 2021). She also edited a special issue of eflux journal and the Critic's Page of Brooklyn Rail on trans |fem | aesthetics, both in 2021, cementing her place as a notable contributor to trans culture.

Release date NZ

September 26th, 2023

Author

McKenzie Wark

Pages

176

Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9781804292617

Product ID

36077934

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